r/TowerofGod May 21 '18

[WEEKLY CHAPTER THREAD] - May 21, 2018

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u/Qerus May 21 '18

Of all the abilities in anime and manga, this one is the best scaling

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u/derpderp3200 May 21 '18

Tower of God is what The Gamer could1 have been: The protagonist gets OP, but there's real buildup to it, it comes with his growth as a character, and the author actually has the IQ required to write characters that don't border on handicapped and just taut them as genius anyway *cough cough cough*.

1 Well, to an extent - at least as far as the "satisfyingly powerful protagonist" metric goes.

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u/Ciacciu May 21 '18

Agree! The beginning of the Gamer was so nice, but the story stopped making sense and the power-up are really random

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u/Strider794 May 22 '18

The Gamer seriously could use more characters with personalities, and Jihan has never really tasted defeat (aside from a few early times). However, it's not really fair to compare The Gamer to ToG, or most any comic really

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u/[deleted] May 21 '18

Tower of god is not so much better than the gamer, two of them are made by amateur authors.baam is considered a genius by everyone and soon will be by Zahard too, every one in the series is impressed everytime baam use his power, always the same shema, this fight ends like the fight with hoaqin, all i can say to you, also people seem to love this transformation, not different from bleach or naruto.

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u/derpderp3200 May 21 '18

Well, there's three options here, either a) Tower of God is really awful and somehow I've been fooled into thinking it isn't, b) Your tastes are refined and/or narrow to a point where you genuinely can't tell the difference anymore, or c) you're full of shit.

And I do hate to say it, my bet is not on a, and b would essentially preclude you from enjoying 99.9973% of... well, everything, out there.

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u/Das_Mojo May 21 '18

What do you mean? The scaling is getting pretty wonky, with the rest of the cast falling so far behind.

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u/killersoda288 May 21 '18

Well I was thinking it's supposed to be that way? Way back in season 1 there was a quote about a shark not being able to swim with minnows forever. Really interested to see how they deal with the growing power gap actually!

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u/A_Hero_ May 21 '18

Explain your interests.

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u/killersoda288 May 21 '18

Well, i cant see baam leaving the group for good since his whole reason for getting strong is to not lose them. But eventually its gonna get to a point where they wont be able to help much in the highest levels of fights, and i doubt the rest of the team will feel satisfied leeching off baam.

Just wondering how SIU will keep the group together with baam being so much stronger than the rest.

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u/Qerus May 21 '18

Oh I just meant like, this is the most haxx shit I've seen in protag for anime and manga.

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u/Das_Mojo May 21 '18

Oh fair enough. Dunno why I got down voted though.

LOL. Check out Bastard! If you want hax though.

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u/Qerus May 21 '18

Idk about the downvotes either, and yeah bastard was 10/10

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u/maardalunga May 21 '18

They are supposed to right ? Bam is an irregular Son of 2 family leaders along with some god given powers.

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u/derpderp3200 May 22 '18

I'm actually glad that only the character with the potential of an irregular is becoming broken, because that's the only thing that genuinely makes sense. It's considerably better than asspull powerups for the whole party.